DS nursed basically round-the-clock for his first year+ -- and I do NOT mean every 1.5-2hours... I mean, he would latch on for 20minutes, take a 5-10 minute break, latch on for 20+ minutes again, pretty much all day every day. Once or twice he slept several hours straight at night, but that turned out to be because he was sick. I had a HUGE oversupply & it didn't get under control 'til he was over a year (I stopped eating gluten around 18mos and that seemed to help a ton with it!)
So around 14mos he started eating tiny amounts of table food and around 18mos we kind of forced it more so he was eating about 10% table food... now at 2yo he is up to around 30% table food (maybe even 40-50% on some days) but he is still nursing constantly -- usually once or twice an hour for 5-30 minutes a shot.
OK so several nights ago I decided to try to get him to go to sleep without nursing... which went OK (he fought it, but eventually did fall asleep with a ton of help from me) and this seemed to help a bit with the all-night nursing. He has (very reluctantly) fallen asleep without nursing for all but one of the last 5-6 days. So he no longer nurses between 11pm - 5am (give or take an hour) except 1 or 2 rough nights. He still nurses every 15-90 minutes or so the rest of the night.
However during the day.... he's been latched on literally ALL DAY for the last 2 days... occasionally takes a (forced) break for 5 minutes tops. He can't be distracted by anything -- not another drink, a snack, a fun game, his favorite activity (reading!), an outing, NOTHING. Is this a reaction to partial night-weaning??? Is that normal?? He doesn't seem to be teething & he's thrown up twice but doesn't seem sick (he has always thrown up when nursing a lot though, plus he sometimes gets carsick).
Obviously I'm most worried (OK maybe 'annoyed' is a better word!) by the last few days of nonstop nursing, but it also had me really thinking about how he nurses in general. I have friends that nurse their 2yo's but none of them nurse more than 1-3 times a day. I have friends with newborns but they nurse no more than once every 1-3 hours. DS nurses way more than any newborn I've ever seen (friends, LLL meetings, etc.), and he's TWO. I have never ever met or heard of another child that nurses as often as DS does. So now I'm starting to think, is there something wrong with him?? Could he have some kind of metabolic disorder or something????
Please someone talk me through this, I feel like either something is wrong with him or something is wrong with me. This just doesn't seem normal no matter how I look at it.
So around 14mos he started eating tiny amounts of table food and around 18mos we kind of forced it more so he was eating about 10% table food... now at 2yo he is up to around 30% table food (maybe even 40-50% on some days) but he is still nursing constantly -- usually once or twice an hour for 5-30 minutes a shot.
OK so several nights ago I decided to try to get him to go to sleep without nursing... which went OK (he fought it, but eventually did fall asleep with a ton of help from me) and this seemed to help a bit with the all-night nursing. He has (very reluctantly) fallen asleep without nursing for all but one of the last 5-6 days. So he no longer nurses between 11pm - 5am (give or take an hour) except 1 or 2 rough nights. He still nurses every 15-90 minutes or so the rest of the night.
However during the day.... he's been latched on literally ALL DAY for the last 2 days... occasionally takes a (forced) break for 5 minutes tops. He can't be distracted by anything -- not another drink, a snack, a fun game, his favorite activity (reading!), an outing, NOTHING. Is this a reaction to partial night-weaning??? Is that normal?? He doesn't seem to be teething & he's thrown up twice but doesn't seem sick (he has always thrown up when nursing a lot though, plus he sometimes gets carsick).
Obviously I'm most worried (OK maybe 'annoyed' is a better word!) by the last few days of nonstop nursing, but it also had me really thinking about how he nurses in general. I have friends that nurse their 2yo's but none of them nurse more than 1-3 times a day. I have friends with newborns but they nurse no more than once every 1-3 hours. DS nurses way more than any newborn I've ever seen (friends, LLL meetings, etc.), and he's TWO. I have never ever met or heard of another child that nurses as often as DS does. So now I'm starting to think, is there something wrong with him?? Could he have some kind of metabolic disorder or something????
Please someone talk me through this, I feel like either something is wrong with him or something is wrong with me. This just doesn't seem normal no matter how I look at it.
So that's where limits come in, for me.
